Google Search Shortcuts

This is my personal copy of an extension that adds navigation shortcuts to the google search page.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Todo
• Build & Install
• License & Acknowledgements

Features

• Use tab and shift + tab to move up and down result links
• Use up and down to move up and down results
• Vim mode; j moves down, k moves up and / moves focus to search bar
• esc selects all text in searchbox
• Add an arrow to show which result is selected
• Add a blue bar on the side of the result
• Automatically select the first search result
• Add a space when focusing the search box
• a shows all results, i shows images, v shows videos, m goes to maps

Quality of life

• Margin Adjustment: Selected result has padding when near top or bottom of the page

Todo

• Create build action
• Figure out how to create the crx file
• Automate deploy process
• Remove "Automatically select the first result on images"
• Make all results, images, videos work -> find "Filters and topics" element, then closest() images link and click
• Add ability to focus on tools? And go to year? T-> time -> Y -> year
  • Add to vim mode, H and L now move the top bar
• Fix "Add space when selecting search bar" feature
• Allow extension on images?
• Allow to rebind j & k
• Remove install & update notification?
• Add message notifying user to refresh page when settings are changed

Build & Install

To use this extension in it's unpacked form you need to:

1. Clone the repository
2. Go to chrome://extensions/ and click on load unpacked
3. Select the folder of the cloned repository

To build same as above but on chrome extensions click on Pack extension to get the .crx build file.

License & Acknowledgements

All code is under the GPL v3 license.
Many thanks to Jacob Chafik and the contributors on the original extension repository.
Also thanks to Valentin Guillet for his forked repository with extended functionality and cleanup.
And finally thanks to Kuranari for his forked repository.